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fissural

fissural adjective: pertaining to a fissure or fissures.

Adjective

fissural (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
    • the fissural pattern of a brain
    • fissural plane

Origin of fissural

From fissure + -al.

Words formed from fissural

Questions about fissural

What does fissural mean?
Fissural means pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
What part of speech is fissural?
Fissural is an adjective.

Words near fissural in the dictionary

  1. fissive
  2. fissle
  3. fissled
  4. fissling
  5. fissula ante fenestram
  6. fissural
  7. fissurate
  8. fissurated
  9. fissurates
  10. fissurating
  11. fissuration

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